Steven had sat through hours of boring classes listening to things Pearl had taught him as a child, Only er waiting for the hero course classes, walking in and taking a seat, the door being thrown open and a tall man walking in gaining gasps and various cheers throughout the room.
"That's all might right?" he asks, leaning over to Krishima who turns to him.
"Y..Yea?"
"I only saw a blurry photo of him yesterday, thanks." he looks forward finding the entire class staring at him incredulously. All Might clearing his throat to get their attention back.
"OK class we are on a bit of a schedule, today we were doing combat training. One of the key parts of being a hero is looking good. These were designed for you based on your quirk registration forms on the request you sent in before school started."
The wall opens and briefcases emerge
"Get suited up, and meet me at training ground beta."
"They say clothes make the pros young ladies and gentlemen and behold you are the proof. "Now Take this to heart, from now on you are all heroes in training."
The group walks out and Steven is wearing His black shirt with a yellow star, his pink jacket, a pair of jeans and his crocks.
"Wow you guys look awesome." he says staring at them.
"Hey universe? How does your outfit help your quirk"
"Oh it doesn't, this is just my normal outfit." he shrugs as they reach the room full of screens picking being put with Momo as the villains against Denki and Jirou.
Momo walks over to Steven.
"Hello universe, i believe it would be advantageous to come up with a battle plan."
"Sounds fun." Steven says Bakugou looking over at him wanting to fight the boy with the highest scores in all of the tests.
"So, what's your quirk.?" he asks her.
"I can take lipids in my body and make it into things I know the chemical makeup of."
"Is there anything you can't make?" he asks, coming up with a plan.
"Not that I know of, is there something in particular you're thinking of?" he asks, catching on. He pulls out his phone looking through thousands of photos finding a science lesson Peridot he had given him and the picture of the chalkboard he had taken because Peridot had doodled herself in the corner zooming in on the chemical formula for the material Homeworld uses to build their ships showing it to her.
"Can you make stuff out of this?"
"Maybe, I don't recognize that material though."
"It's not very well known, I'd appreciate it if you didn't share it?"
"Of course Universe." she bows in thanks
"If this works this stuff should be stronger than anything other metal, lighter too she looks at the formula memorizing it seeing steven turn around to talk to someone she takes a chance to zoom out surprised at the advanced equations on the board
Steven watches the fight between bakugou and izuku finding their interactions he had seen earlier oddly like his own with jasper in temperment.
He grins as the floating girl gets the bomb, she seemed nice and he definitely didn't want the less angry jasper to win.
"Mr all might sir?" Steven asks, walking up to him.
"Yes young universe?"
"I'm in the third battle, would it be ok if I go heal izuku's burns?"
"Of course young universe, I'm sure Midoriya would appreciate that."
"Thanks." steven says, leaving the room heading towards the exit to the battlegrounds, finding Uraraka helping the limping deku.
"Steven!" she exclaims having seen him heal deku yesterday.
"Can you heal burns?!: she asks and he nods, licking his palm coming to a stop and pressing his palm to izukus arm, the flesh glowing pink for a moment before stopping leaving perfectly healed flesh.
"You need to stop doing this, I won't always be around to heal you."
Izuku bows . "I understand, thank you universe."
"You can run along ,Allmights waiting. I want to talk to bakugou."
"You… shouldn't." izuku warns.
"Don't worry, i'll be fine" he assures him
Deku and Uraraka run along and steven catches bakugos arm as he tries to storm past him.
"Do you want to die!"
"No, but you seem to want to kill someone, what do you think will happen if you hit someone with one of those blasts? Not everyone will be as lucky as Izuku"
"Why should I care about some useless deku!" he tries to blast steven who smacks his hand away sending the blast harmlessly off to the side.
"If it was anyone else you'd have injured them"
"And!?"
"What do you think it means to be a hero?"
"A hero is the strongest, their untouchable and can blow anyone standing in front of them away."
"I've met people like you before, if you continue down this path you are more likely to be a murderer than a hero, if you mindlessly hurt anyone you think is standing in your way then all of these pro heroes teachers will be hunting you down." he turns his back on bakugou walking away.
steven makes it back to the room finding the second team partway into their mock battle watching the peppermint themed teen using ice to trap the others and his own teammate
His years of fighting experience helping him notice that he was using his other hand to melt the ice, some kind of dual quirk he made a note for later. Finally time for his match. He and Momo make their way to the test room after Cementoss had repaired it.
"You should try out some of that material while we have a moment, so i can see if it's OK"
"Oh alright." she says holding out her palm a grey material coming out.
"Hmm, it looks right but i've never seen it gray." he reaches out for it holding it in his palm and squeezing it feeling its give.
"I think you got it down, could you try to make it pink? It looks better like that."
"Of course!" she says happily nearly blinding steven with her bright attitude
"Odds are they'll attack head on, neither of them seem to have the power to bust down walls as it is.
"I agree, I should go meet them. You can start on the traps."
"Sounds like a plan, universe."
"How are we going to beat Universe?" Denki asks for the fourth time.
"You're going to shock him, and then we're going to get the bomb. Just don't screw up."
"Good plan heroes, but will it be enough?" Steven asks them in his villain voice, making Denki scream in surprise, both looking forward. seeing Steven standing At the end of the hall.
"I don't think i've been electrocuted before, i'm not sure i want to be."
"Well to bad, we have to win.'' Denki rushes forward and Steven sidesteps him, used to much faster enemies he forms a shield blocking a sonic blast from Jiro sending it off to the side and through the wall.
"Good job, but not near enough." he fake an evil laugh as Denki grabs his shoulder.
"Got ya!" he exclaims as steven grabs his arm throwing him at Jiro who makes no effort to catch him just sidestepping, sending a much stronger blast at steven who this time forms a bubble rushing forward the wall chipping away from her blst bouncing off.
"Where were these powers yesterday!" denki yells
"Why would I use them in tests like that?" he drops the bubel as her blast stops stomping his foot and shattering the floor underneath, keeping himself from falling as jiro does. Staring at denki. Who looks down, up down up and back down. Before turning and running down the stairs to regroup with his teammate. Steven laughing dropping down and following jirou down the hall.
"Oh little hero's it's time to come out." he calls down the hall tracking them turning a corner to find denki pressing his hands to his chest
"50,000 volts!" Stevens' body tenses up and he turns pink, swatting Denki away, smashing him through a wall.
A blast of concussive noise slamming into his side.
"ENOUGH!" he yells and the entire building shakes, a buzzer sounding from above.
"That's enough, the building's unstable you need to get out now." He looks around, finding massive cracks everywhere Steven closes his eyes, forcing his body to calm down.
"Go, i'll grab him."
"What the hell's wrong with you?!" she demands
"I don't know, he admits." and she stares at him for a moment before she walks away. Steven moves to Kaminari, moving ruble from him and licking his hand, pressing it to him, a sickening cracking being heard as his bones right themselves, his eyes flying open.
"Did I die?" he asks, shuffling away. From Steven until his back hits a wall. "No, you're not pink. I think I just hurt you."
"There's a lot to unpack in that.
"The building isn't stable, we need to move."
"Damn, you did this?"
"Yea, I'm really sorry." he rubs the back of his neck.
"Did you mean to do that."
"Of course not, you shocked me and I reacted poorly. Let's just get out of here."
"Yea, good idea."
"Explain it to me universe, Kaminari shocked you and you what?"
"I've developed a new power recently, I've been dealing its a non issue."
"This is what you call a non issue, hurting a fellow student and nearly bringing a building down on another Three?"
"I don't know why I freaked out, I've been hurt a lot worse than that. It's a good thing that this power did not appear when i was thirteen almost no one tries to kill me now a days."
He laughs awkwardly looking up to see Aizawa's eye twitching.
"And during all of this where were your guardians?
"Usually they have their own jobs to do, we were fighting against a near infinite empire and there were only four of us back then."
"And did they ever get you therapy?"
"No, their problems were always more pressing."
*slam.* Steven looks up to see Aizawa slam his head onto the desk.
"Go home, we'll deal with this tomorrow."
"Alright, goodbye Mr Aizawa." he grabs his bag leaving Aizawa alone. He picks up his phone when he leaves ,dialing Nedzus' number.
"Principal Nedzu, we need to talk about Steven universe. Some new things have come to light."
